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- ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ (1975) There were “midnight movies” before the big-screen version of Richard O’Brien’s tongue-in-cheek stage show, assembled from the spare parts of science fiction double features, musical theater and underlined passages of “Notes on Camp.”
- ‘Saturday Night Fever’ (1977) Meet Tony Manero, age 19, a native of Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge. During the day, this outer-borough everyguy sells paint and bickers with his Italian-American family.
- ‘Cooley High’ (1975) Set in 1964 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and scored by Motown’s vibrant back catalog, this coming-of-age tale follows a group of young, Black high schoolers in Chicago — led by the burgeoning poet Preach (Glynn Turman) and his college bound best friend Cochise (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) — through a series of teenage hijinks (sneaking out of class, fights at house parties).
- ‘F for Fake’ (1973) Orson Welles is at his slipperiest in this essay film, as he imports his gift for telling plummy tall tales on the talk-show circuit to a feature-film format.
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- 'Apocalypse Now' (1979) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. It's easy to call Apocalypse Now a great war movie, but it's also more than just a war movie. It's a loose adaptation of the novella Heart of Darkness, following one man who's given the task of traveling deep into a jungle for the purposes of killing another who's said to have gone rogue, and therefore poses a threat.
- 'Chinatown' (1974) Director: Roman Polanski. Chinatown expertly brings the film noir genre into the 1970s, melding classic noir tropes and storytelling devices with a New Hollywood look/feel.
- 'The Conformist' (1970) Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Though it's certainly not a musical (instead functioning more as a psychological drama), The Conformist is another early 1970s movie that joins Cabaret as a blunt, eye-opening exploration of Fascism.
- 'Jaws' (1975) Director: Steven Spielberg. Jaws wasn't the very first movie Steven Spielberg ever directed, but it was his first arguably perfect (or close to it) one.
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Nov 8, 2023 · 1. The Godfather Part II (1974) View now at Amazon. Whenever the argument arises over the inferiority of sequels, Francis Ford Coppola’s first follow-up to The Godfather is commonly used as a classic example that bucks the trend. Along with Addams Family Values of course.
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